“As follows from the publication, on May 12, 2020, the 48-year-old Tomich, who returned to Tomsk from Yakutia with a group of shift workers, was placed on the observatory. On May 17, 2020, the man became ill and he was hospitalized by the ambulance team in the regional clinical hospital, where he died three days later, ”the agency’s website said in a statement.

According to vtomske.ru, in early May, special crews delivered shift workers to Tomsk from the Chayandinsky field in Yakutia, where an outbreak of coronavirus infection occurred. Shift workers were placed in observatories.

May 13, it became known about the death of one of the shift workers from a heart attack.